Word: hearsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months since his father died, New Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. has started a quiet revolution in the Hearst publishing empire. "I don't want to rap the Old Man," said one Chicago Herald-American newsman last week, "but this is a young, vigorous organization now. We've changed. Local editors can put out their own papers now without waiting to hear from headquarters...
Oldtimers, who remember the famous wires ("The Chief Suggests") that set Hearstlings to waving the flag or jumping into battle against vivisectionists, women in bars and other pet Hearst peeves, find a totally different climate. The new day began for the papers in the chain when Bill Hearst sent all his editors this instruction: . . . Use the greatest care to avoid bias or lack of objectivity in the handling of the news . . . News must be presented without partiality . . . Our news and campaigns . . . should not be extreme, unfair or one-sided . . . Please impart this point of view to all members of your...
Kazan explained that he refused to name the others because he felt that it would be unfair to force men to give up their livelihoods for what they had once believed. "Why, at that time," Kazan said, "cries of a Communist threat were called 'Hearst propaganda...
Photographer Wells, who later insisted that he was too far away for his presence to make any difference, raced to the studio and put in calls to newspaper city desks. Hearst's afternoon Call-Bulletin bought one of the pictures for $85; Scripps-Howard's News got another for $25. Both papers ran them on Page One, and next morning Hearst's Examiner ran others. The only San Francisco paper that did not run the pictures was the Chronicle, whose deskman could not be reached when the agency was peddling the prints. Next day the Chronicle...
...When Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell had a relapse last month, after doctors had ordered "a complete rest" (TIME, Feb. 4), his column dropped out of some 600 papers, and he discontinued his Sunday night broadcast. Last week Winchell's $500,000-a-year radio contract with Warner-Hudnut, Inc. was canceled...